farmer's wife

Chapter 247

After the new year, taking advantage of nothing important in the court, Xiao Lie and Pei Mo asked for leave, and the two families set off together to go to Qingzhou City to worship their ancestors.

In his early years, Pei Mo used his savings to buy the small courtyard where the family used to be, and erected a tomb for his parents.Because I didn't come back often, I entrusted this small courtyard to an old lady to clean and take care of it.

Therefore, when the four low-key carriages were parked in the alley, they did not attract the attention of the surrounding people. Everyone just thought it was the family who had been away from home all year round, and they took a curious look and gave up.

Pei Mo helped Zhao Yunyan get off the carriage.

This trip is mainly to visit Qingzhou City and Shizhou City. Because they still have duties and cannot stay for long, Nanny Li and Granny Shi did not bring the two old people to work hard together when they were old.

Just as Pei Mo and the others stood firm, Xiao Lie got off from the second carriage behind him with his daughter in his arms.Pei Mo stepped forward to take the chubby niece, and let Xiao Lie help Fu Yan down.

In the third carriage were two brothers and sisters, Shi Yang and Shiman. As soon as they knew that they could go back, they missed the small yards and small shops in Shizhou City very much.Back then, I made an agreement with the old diners that the restaurant would not open until the spring of the next year. Unexpectedly, two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the first month of the month, the wind was bitterly cold, so Pei Mo called everyone to go in quickly.The old lady would come to clean it regularly, but there wasn't much dust in the house, and the accompanying maids who came along quickly cleaned it up, the house was not big but it could accommodate everyone.

Pei Mo led Fu Yan to stroll around in the small courtyard, which was like the layout of a home back then, but only a few vague images flashed in Fu Yan's mind, and Pei Mo didn't force it.

Pei Mo smiled and comforted his sister: "It's nothing, let's revisit the old place, it's good to know where home is."

"Okay, it's windy, let's stop blowing the air-conditioning outside, and go back to the house to warm up."

"Okay." Fu Yan turned her head to look at this strange but reassuring small courtyard, and followed her brother back to the house.

On the second day, everyone went to the grave of Fu's parents to worship together.

Pei Mo knelt straight in front of his parents' graves, and kowtowed four times solidly.He clasped the soil under his palms tightly with his hands, pressed his forehead against the cold ground, his eyes were red and he didn't wake up for a long time.

Father, mother, I took my sister home...

Everyone looked at him silently without saying a word.Even the youngest Nuonuo was affected by the atmosphere, obediently staying in Daddy's arms without making a sound.

After a long time, Pei Mo stood up and stepped aside, personally burning paper money for his parents.Zhao Yunyan, Fu Yan, and Xiao Lie Nuo Nuo stepped forward to worship in turn.Everyone gently introduced themselves to the couple who were buried here, telling their promises.

Xiao Lie hugged his daughter in one hand and his depressed daughter-in-law in the other, quietly watching the cold wind blow away the burnt paper money, drifting farther and farther away...

**
After staying in Qingzhou City for three days, the carriage set off again and headed for Shizhou.

Arriving here, the Xiao family and Zhao Yunyan were familiar with each other, and they all told Pei Mo about the things in their memories.

Although she couldn't come back from Yunjing, Fu Yan never forgot to send gifts to relatives and friends here every year.The key to the small courtyard in the city was also entrusted to Aunt Zhang. Occasionally, Master Sun Changming would come to see it when he went to the city to sell goods.

Years ago, Aunt Zhang received the letter that they were coming back. Every time she went to the city to visit her youngest son's family, she would go to Xiao's house to have a look, hoping that the children would go home early.

When Fu Yan and his party arrived home, the room was spotless, and they knew it was thanks to Aunt Zhang.

"Go home!" Shi Yang cheered, and led Xiao Jian to rush in first. The eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy was not as stable as usual in front of the young apprentices.

Nuo Nuo looked at them curiously, eager to try.Xiao Lie put the little girl down and let her run around behind A Jian.

"Brother, sister-in-law, come in. This is the original home of A Yan and me. In front is the shop, which is in the pastry business..." Xiao Lie greeted Pei Mo and his wife, and introduced them as they walked.

It was also the first time for Zhao Yunyan to come here, and he and Pei Mo looked around curiously, learning about Fu Yan's early life.Listening to them slowly laughing and talking about the ordinary and happy little days, Pei Mo looked at his sister and brother-in-law with a flash of relief in his eyes.

In this way, it will be fine...

After resting for the night, the Xiao family brought gifts and went back to Anping Village to visit Chang Sun's family and Master first.Pei Mo also wanted to see the village where his sister lived, so he went together.

Shi Yang didn't go, but took his younger sister to open the shop in the front yard to make pastries with great interest, saying that it was agreed with the regular customers at the beginning.Fu Yan smiled and tossed with him.

Heigou immediately ran to Sanye Fang's residence after receiving news from his staff that the Fufu Dessert Shop had reopened.

"Third Master?" the black dog barked, and because he didn't know what Fang Meng was thinking, he didn't dare to urge him.

Fang Meng looked into the distance, then looked back at the slender figure busy in the kitchen, and said softly just now: "Understood, you can go back. It's still the old rules, just take care of yourself."

That person did whatever he wanted but he had long since forgotten him. It was his intention to repay his kindness, so there was no need to bother their family...

**
Without anyone with him, Xiao Lie and Pei Mo rode a horse, guarding a carriage, and stopped at the door of the village chief's house.

As time goes by, the small village remains the same without much change.

But the villagers looked at the aura of this group of people, but they were surprised and suspicious.

"That's... Xiao Lie?"

"I also looked like it. Didn't you say that you have become a high-ranking official in Yunjing and won't come back?"

"It's the Xiao family! I saw Ah Jian. She is tall and fair, but she can still tell her!"

They watched from afar curiously.

Xiao Lie and his party have been warmly welcomed in by Aunt Zhang.

Aunt Zhang looked at the familiar children in front of her with tears in her eyes: "Okay, okay, just come back..."

"Quickly, go and call your father back!" Aunt Zhang asked the somewhat restrained daughter-in-law to call the old man in the field.

The second daughter-in-law of the Sun family, Wang Shu, ran out in response, while the eldest daughter-in-law, Cui Taoer, served tea and water to everyone warmly and cautiously.

"Sister-in-law, don't be too busy. We are not thirsty, so you can sit down too." Fu Yan called her softly.Cui Tao'er looked at Fu Yan who didn't seem to have aged at all and was even more beautiful, so she hesitated.The current identities of the Xiao family are unknown to the villagers, but their family knew it after receiving a letter from Fu Yan.

"Knowing that you two are coming back, I'll go to the city every now and then to have a look, but let me wait!" Aunt Zhang said enthusiastically.

Fu Yan said slightly apologetically, "Aunt Zhang, we couldn't leave and didn't come back earlier, so I'd like to trouble you to take care of the house. There is still Shisheng in the village, is that okay?"

"It's all good, all is good, don't worry. Shisheng has now taken over his father-in-law's plan and became the accountant." Aunt Zhang smiled until the wrinkles in the corners of her eyes never came down, "Oh, we, Ajian Nunuuo It's grown so big, let me see..."

Xiao Jian leaned over: "Aunt Zhang!"

"Hey!"

In the yard, the village chief Sun Changgeng hurried back and saw a tall and straight young figure, "Ariel..."

"Uncle Sun, we are back." Xiao Lie walked towards the light.

As soon as the Xiao family came back, Aunt Zhang had countless things to say to them. Knowing that they would go up the mountain to visit Sun Changming, she could only stop talking temporarily, let them go first, and repeatedly asked them to come down the mountain to eat at home at night.

**
Sun Changming was sitting in the yard with his head down, tanning his fur. When he heard footsteps, his ears moved, and he stood up and looked towards the intersection.

"Uncle Changming!" Xiao Jian took the lead, pushed open the courtyard door and rushed in.

Sun Changming's eyes softened, and he picked up Xiao Jian who was rushing towards him: "You're back?"

"Hmm! Uncle Changming, Ah Jian misses you so much!" Xiao Jian said coquettishly when she saw someone she was familiar with.

Sun Changming slapped his head, and a smile appeared in the corner of his eyes.

"Master!" Xiao Lie came in with Nuo Nuo in his arms, and shouted together with Fu Yan.

Pei Mo clasped his fists in salute, Xiao Lie, the master, gave him a familiar aura of being in the army.

Sun Changming asked everyone to enter the room to talk, and patiently listened to Xiao Lie's experience in the past few years.

……

As expected, the dinner was at the village chief's house. Originally, when he came back this time, Xiao Lie wanted to take Sun Changming to Yunjing to retire.

Sun Changming was unwilling, but it was not beyond the expectation of Xiao Lie and Fu Yan.

Helpless, they could only stay with Sun Changming for a few more days.When the time can no longer be delayed, I just set off to return to Beijing.

Sun Changming stood upright in the cold wind and watched the carriage go away, and then set off to return to the mountain.

He took a jug of wine and went to a clothes grave in the back mountain.

This time Xiao Lie came back to talk about those iron blood on the battlefield, which reminded him of the past involuntarily.

He sat on the ground, silently drinking the spirits with his head up.

He was also conscripted into the army during the battle when the first emperor was there.A ten-year-old boy, thanks to the protection of his brothers in the same camp, he managed to survive.

It's a pity that the battlefield is unpredictable. In that night attack, in order to delay the time to pass the news to the rear, the brothers insisted on paving the way for him with their lives and allowing time for him.

When he arrived with the reinforcements, the brothers had already been sleeping in that land.

They were all lonely, and they talked and laughed happily in their spare time, and they all said that they would wait for the war to end and find a village to live a stable life together, but it was no longer possible...

His life was exchanged by his brothers. In fact, he should have slept there together. In this way, he will stay with his brothers for the rest of his life.

Yu Hui jumped down from the clouds, and Sun Changming drank the last sip of wine, "Let's go, I'll see my brothers tomorrow." He patted the ground, got up and walked away...

(End of this chapter)